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North Bridgton is a village in the town of Bridgton in
North Bridgton is a village in the town of Bridgton in Cumberland County Cumberland County may refer to:
Australia
* Cumberland County, New South Wales
* the former name of Cumberland Land District, Tasmania, Australia
Canada
*Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
United Kingdom
*Cumberland, historic county
*Cumberlan ...
, Maine
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, United States
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. It is located just west of Long Lake, and just south of the town of Harrison
Harrison may refer to:
People
* Harrison (name)
* Harrison family of Virginia, United States
Places
In Australia:
* Harrison, Australian Capital Territory, suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin
In Canada:
* Inukjuak, Quebec, or " ...
. In 1768, the undeveloped land was granted by the Massachusetts General Court
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to a group of proprietors led by a man named Moody Bridges. Settlement began in 1770, when a tavern was built.
It is home to Bridgton Academy
Bridgton Academy is an all-male college preparatory school, college preparatory in Bridgton, Maine. Founded in 1808, the school sits at the northern tip of Long Lake in North Bridgton, Maine. The school has been NEASC accredited since 1934, making ...
, an all-boys college-preparatory school. The ZIP code for North Bridgton is 04057; this ZIP code only applies to mail sent to post office boxes at the North Bridgton Post office. Street delivery in the neighborhood of North Bridgton carries the Bridgton address and ZIP code 04009. North Bridgton also has the highest recorded temperature in the state, at 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
North Bridgton was once served by the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad
The Bridgton and Saco River Railroad (B&SR) was a narrow gauge railroad that operated in the vicinity of Bridgton and Harrison, Maine. It connected with the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad (later Maine Central Railroad Mountain Division) from ...
. One of the last surviving iron bridges from Maine's narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard-gauge railway, standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum r ...
, built in 1898 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Connecticut, once spanned Stevens Brook. It was salvaged by a private collector and is undergoing restoration by the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum is a narrow gauge railway, located in Portland, Maine, United States.
History
Operating out of the former Portland Company Marine Complex, the organization was founded in 1993 and continues to operat ...
in Portland
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* Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
* Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...
.
References
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